Archive for August, 2008

TiE Retail Summit

Contributed by Charu Gupta On 1st August, we attended the TiE Retail Summit held at Sheraton Hotel, Saket where Milagrow conducted a panel discussion on “How Small will Become Bigger” and mentoring session. The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), is a global not-for-profit organization, dedicated towards fostering entrepreneurship. TiE provides a platform for entrepreneurs, professionals, industry leaders, [...]

Story of Private Labels

Contributed by Richa Kapoor With India on the cusp of a retail revolution and discount stores riding high on the wave, the only way retailers can create moolah for themselves is having their “Private Labels”. But the only caution for retailers is that there should be a clear understanding of what a Private Label strategy [...]

New search engine ‘Cuil’ plans to break Google monopoly

The hunt for information on the internet has been synonymous with Google. The search engine has maintained a clear lead over Yahoo and Microsoft, the number two and three players, respectively, in web search. While earlier attempts by Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc to join forces against Google failed, a team of former Google engineers [...]

3G in India…

-Contributed by Ankit After a long wait, the government finally announced the guidelines for the 3G spectrums. As expected, government owned MTNL and BSNL were granted licenses, giving them a head start of several months over their competitors. Government also had a surprise announcement for CDMA operators, who would also be granted 3G licenses along [...]